Leakless cream-can lid



M. E. RICKER LEAKLESS CREAM CAN LID Feb. 22,1927. 1,618,730

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Feb. 22. 1927'.

M. E. RICKER LEAKLESS CREAM CAN LID Filed Feb. 16, 1926 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 avwemf oz Patented Feb. 22, 1927.

MAURICE EUGENE RICKER, 0F KALON-A, IOWA.

LEAKLESS CREAM-CAN- LID.

Application filed February 16, 1926. Serial no. 88,605.

This invention aims to provide a simple but sanitary means for holding a closure tightly in a cream can or other container.

It is within the province of the disclosure to improve generally and to enhance the utility of devices of that type to which the invention appertains.

With the above-and other objects in view which will appear as the description proceeds, the invention resides in the combinationand arrangement of parts and in the details of construction hereinafter described and claimed, it being I understood that changes in the precise embodiment of the invention herein disclosed, may be made within the scope of what. is claimed, without departing from the spirit of the invention.

In the drawings Figure 1 shows in vertical section, a portion of a can equipped with the device forming the subject matter ofthis application Figure 2 is a top plan wherein parts are broken away;

Figure 3 is a transverse section;

Figure 4 is a longitudinal section taken about at right angles to the showing of Figure 1;

Figure 5-' is a cross section of the retainer.

The numeral 1 designates a cream can or other container including a neck 2 having a flared part 3 within which is secured a conical keeper 4, in the form of a ring, the keeper being provided with ribs 6. Sometimes the body of the can has 0 enings 5 adapted to receive a seal or the like, not shown, and when these openings 5 exist in the can, they are closed up when the keeper or ring 4 is mounted in place.

A retainer 9, in the form of a ring, is secured in the neck 2. In its inner edge, the retainer 9 has passages 10 disposed parallel to the axisof the can 1-. On its undersurface, the retainer 9 is supplied with circumferentially slanting cam surfaces 11 which lead from the passages or notches 10.

A cup-shaped closure 7 fits in the neck 2 and is provided at its upper end with a guard 8 which extends outwardly and downwardly'about the part 3 of the neck 2 to aid in keeping out dirt. A tubular handle 12 is mounted at its ends on the side wall of the closure 7.

A latch 14 is mounted for reciprocation in the handle 12. The latch 14 includes a body 15, a reduced stem 16 projecting from the body, and afoot 18 held detachably but securely on the stem 16 by' an attaching element 17 .1 The. outer end of the foot 18 of the latch 14 is reducedat 19 to fit'between. the ribs 6 and the keeper 4. A washer 20 is disposed about the stem 16 and engages the innenend of the foot 18. A washer 21.likewise extendsabout the stem 16 and is located in the handle 12., Securing elements '22, mounted in the handle 12, hold the washer 21 against inward movement. The washer 21 and the securing elements 22 form an abutment for the inner end of a compression spring 23, disposed about the stem- 16 of the latch 14, the outer edge of the compression spring 23 engaging the washer 20, to advance the latch 14, so that the reduced part 19 ot' the latch 14 will engage with the ribs 6 on the keeper ring 4. A tubular operating member 24 is mounted .to slide and to rotate on the handle 12. A securing device 25, such as a screw, connects the operating member 24 with the foot 18 of the latch 14. The securing device 25 'moves in a laterally extended slot or seat 26 that is formed in the handle 12, within the slide 24, the slot being hook-shaped, as shown in Figure 2.

The closure 7 includes a base 27, attached to the bottom of the closure and located within the retainer ring 9. In the lower surface of the disk-like base 27, there is a transverse passage 28 which is intersected by a bore. 29 located at right angles to the passage. A holder 30, in the form of a bar, is located in the passage 28, and has reduced ends 31, adapted to'cooperate with the cam surfaces 11 of the retainer 9', the holder 30 being mountedintermediate its ends to tilt a little on a pivot element 32, in the form of a rod, the pivot element being located in the bore 29, and being held therein by screws 33 threaded into the ends of the bore.

By means of the tubular operating membar or slide 24, the latch 14 may be-retracted, the spring 23 being compressed. If the operating member or slide 24 is rotated, the securing device 25 will be carried laterally in the seat or slot 26, and, thus, the latch 14 will be held retracted. The closure 17 is inserted into the neck 2 of the cam 1, the body portion of the closure resting on the retainer or ring 9, and the reduced ends 31 of the bar 30 pass downwardly through the passages or notches 10 in the retainer ring 9. Then, the closure 7 is rotated by means of the handle 12. The ends 31 of the holder 30 move along the cam surfaces 11 of the cumferential rack, a closure rotatable in retainer ring 9, and the lower end of the the container and provided with a .handle, body of the closure 7 is bound firmly upon a holder mounted on the closure and coopthe retainer 9, the part 9 serving as a seat crating with the cam to advance the closure for the closure. Then, the slide or operating into the container when the closure is member 24 may be rotated so as to permit rotated, a spring-pressed latch slidable in the slide and the latch 14 to move to the left, the handle and normally in position to in Figure 1, under the impulse of the spring automatically engage with the rack, thereby 23, the spring 23 causin the reduced end to hold the closure against rotation whilst 19 of the latch to engage ietween two of the the holder engages the cam to advance the ribs 6 on the keeper ring 4, the closure 7 closure as aforesaid, and means under the thus being prevented from rotating, it being control of an operator for retracting the obvious that, if the closure 7 is reversely latch.

rotated, the ends 31 of the holder bar 2. In a device of the class described, a will loose their gri) on the cams 11. Owing container having oppositely disposed cirto the fact that the holder bar 30 is pivcumfez'ential cams, a closure rotatable in the otally mounted intermediate its ends as at container, a holder cooperating at its ends 32, both of the ends 31 of the holder bar with the respective cams to seat the closure will cooperate properly with the cam sur- \vhen direct rotation is imparted to the faces 11 of the retainer ring 9, and it is closure, means for pivotally mounting the necessary to form neither the cams 11 nor holder at a point intermediate its ends for the ends 31 of the holder 30 with microtilting movement on the closure, and means metric exactness, in order to secure favorable for holding the closure releasably against results. reverse rotation,-

What is claimed is:- In testimony that I claim the foregoing it. In a device of the class described, a as my own, 1 have hereto aflixed my sigcontainer having an internal circumferennature. tial cam and provided with an internal cir- Mm MAURICE EUGENE RICKER. 

